[Tai Road Special News]The “2022 World Badminton Championships” currently being staged in Tokyo, Japan will be held on Saturday (27th) in the top four. Among them, the men’s singles “One Brother” from Denmark, Axelsen, continued to be strong and went straight to 2 : 0 defeated Chinese Taipei Zhou Tiancheng to reach the final, and will play once morest Thailand’s three-time world youth champion Kunlavut Vitidsarn on Sunday, striving to be crowned king once more following 2017.
Axelsen, who won the Tokyo Olympic champion last year, has performed unstoppable this year. Since December last year, he has been firmly seated as the world’s “No. 1 brother”, and he has not lost a defeat in the quarter-finals of the German Open in March. After winning the top 8 of the World Championships yesterday, it has recorded 36 consecutive victories in various competitions. Except for two races that retired due to injuries before the competition, they won a total of 5 championships in half a year.
Axelsen has not lost a game from the top 64 to the top 8 in this World Championship. Yesterday, he faced the sixth-ranked Indonesian Ginting in two straight games at 21:10 and 21:10. Facing Zhou Tiancheng, who is ranked 4th in the world today, Ansailong continued to maintain his bravery. In the early part of the first game, he had widened the difference to 6 points. Zhou Tiancheng only caught up to 3 points behind at the end of the game, but he was still defeated by Ansai. Dragon took the lead with 21:15. After the exchange of fields, both of them took the lead, and Axelsen once opened to 13:9. Even though Zhou Tiancheng scored 5 points in a row and once reversed the lead, Axelsen immediately returned with 6 points in a row and successfully took down the game at 21:17. In the second game, he reached the final 2-0 in straight sets, and recorded his 37th consecutive victory in all competitions.
The other men’s singles quarter-final will be played by Thailand’s Kunlavut Vitidsarn, ranked 17th in the world, once morest Zhao Junpeng of China, ranked 23rd. Kunlavut Vitidsarn, who won the World Youth Championship for 3 consecutive times from 2017 to 2019, defeated Singapore’s Luo Jianyou, who was trying to defend his title, 2:1 yesterday. He reached the top 4 of the World Championship for the first time. He defeated Zhao Junpeng 22:20 and 21:6 and became the first Thai men’s singles player to advance to the World Championships final.
Axelsen will compete with Kunlavut Vitidsarn for the title, aiming for the center of the podium once more following 2017. It is worth mentioning that the two have played once morest each other 4 times in the past, and Axelsen recorded a one-sided victory and zero losses. At that time, they won 21:12 and 21:8 in straight sets.
This article is by “Sportsroad“Originally published in “【Badminton World Championships】Unstoppable!The hot Ansailong defeats Zhou Tiancheng in the final to beat the three-time World Youth Champion」
